Member postings for Wesley Souza

Sleep well my friend and thank you for your contribution.

Here we use kg, meters and km/h and in the USA they use pounds and inches and mph.

Sorry my friend, here in Brazil we don't use inches very much, if that's what you mean. Even in engineering we use the meter metric. So, I mentioned that the measurements were around 23" (60x60cm) and (80x80cm) 31".

I also believe that using 80mmx80mm porcelain tiles, despite using a very rigid structure, would not support it and would flex at some point. But I intend to cut it to a smaller size, something around 60x60 or 40x40. Perhaps the fact of saying that I have the piece of such size suggested that I would use the piece in its dimensional totality.

I follow a Brazilian YouTube channel in which a user is building a homemade lathe without the aid of heavy machine tools. All based on a file, rasket and some small cutting machines. And he instructed me to start with a surface plate so that I could build the guides and every part of the lathe that required a certain precision. Using the withworth method and with three 15mm black granite slabs, he built a surface slab with an accuracy between 0.005mm and 0.01mm and I also wondered if I could reproduce this method using the porcelain tiles I already have available and then use engineer's blue to flatten the lathe guides. An accuracy of .01mm would be fine for me.

Hi Rod, thanks for your reply and for your concern. So, I live in Brazil and here imported products are very expensive, very expensive. That's why we try to build things because that's the only way it becomes reality. It is very common here, lathes, milling machines and all kinds of homemade tools. Sometimes it's a little embarrassing to ask questions about how to build something, because people uninformed about the reality I live in always answer: " hey, why don't you buy it?" and "Hey, I went to the used trade and paid cheap" I don't have that cheap option. I went on a website the other day to get answers and an OP started saying about his "amateur" shop.- "I have 3 lathes, 2 milling machines...." I got embarrassed and gave up asking. This is my story😂

Hi, here in my country we don't use such thick granite slabs to build sinks or even floor slabs. It is customary to use the 15mm measurement, I believe it is to save raw material. And the porcelain tiles are in a measurement range of 12mm.

hi guys, I am very grateful for all the contributions, but from what I could see my idea is not usual. I only suggested such a procedure, because in my country the price of a surface plate is not very attractive. The currency is 5 times less than the value of the dollar and our friend the government still charges 60% for imports. Thank you for all your help and I will look for another method or alternative.

*withworth 3 plates method

I don't know if I made myself clear, but my question is about the 3 withworth slabs method and whether porcelain tiles could be used in its construction instead of granite. I am aware of the thickness of the tile and that it could warp and lose precision, but I could use a ribbed metal base. I just wanted to hear the opinion of someone with more knowledge.

sorry, I mean the thickness of the granite used in kitchen sink countertops, which, by the way, I've seen used for surface plates. of course, a ribbed bed of flat bars of common steel was used.

Hi Thor, thank you very much for your reply. I was thinking of using the 3 board method. I saw that they are using ceramic and I wondered if I could use porcelain. It has a very similar thickness to the thickness of the granite and I thought I could save money on this step.

Thank you very much for your reply. It's just that I have some very thick porcelain tiles and if I'm not mistaken, the thickness is very similar to the thickness of the granite. I was thinking about it!

hello friends, trying to recreate that famous method of flat surface plates and I was wondering if I could use that porcelain tile that is used for covering floors and walls. I have some left over from my bathroom remodeling and they are 80cm x 80cm. I've heard that ceramics are used as an alternative, would porcelain tiles also be possible? Has anyone thought of this or done it?